English Grammar on the Productive System: A Method of Instruction Recently Adopted in Germany and Switzerland, Designed for Schools and AcademiesSpalding & Storrs, 1840 - 192 sider |
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Side 98
... construction of the sentence , are the next before and after it , must always be alike . Perhaps this subject will be more intelligible by ob- serving that the words , in the cases preceding and following the verb to be , may be said to ...
... construction of the sentence , are the next before and after it , must always be alike . Perhaps this subject will be more intelligible by ob- serving that the words , in the cases preceding and following the verb to be , may be said to ...
Side 106
... construction of the passive voice requires the object of the active verb , to become the nominative to the passive verb ; as , " He taught me grammar ; " irannar was taught me . " In some few instances , just the re- verse takes plac ...
... construction of the passive voice requires the object of the active verb , to become the nominative to the passive verb ; as , " He taught me grammar ; " irannar was taught me . " In some few instances , just the re- verse takes plac ...
Side 119
... construction of sentences may perhaps be best learned by correcting examples of wrong con- struction . Exercises in false syntax for the pupil , as- sisted by rules and notes to parse and correct , will therefore now be given . The ...
... construction of sentences may perhaps be best learned by correcting examples of wrong con- struction . Exercises in false syntax for the pupil , as- sisted by rules and notes to parse and correct , will therefore now be given . The ...
Side 124
... construction . For the same reason , we ought to say , " I shail consider his censures so far only as con- cerns my friend's conduct , " and not " so far as concern . " RULE XVIII . Corresponding with Murray'a Grammaz , RULE 11 124 ...
... construction . For the same reason , we ought to say , " I shail consider his censures so far only as con- cerns my friend's conduct , " and not " so far as concern . " RULE XVIII . Corresponding with Murray'a Grammaz , RULE 11 124 ...
Side 125
... construction , it is said , that the verb may be under- stood as applied to each of the preceding terms ; as in the following example : " Sand , and salt , and a mass of iron , is easier to hear than a man without un- derstanding ...
... construction , it is said , that the verb may be under- stood as applied to each of the preceding terms ; as in the following example : " Sand , and salt , and a mass of iron , is easier to hear than a man without un- derstanding ...
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according to RULE active verb adjective pronoun adverb agrees applied auxiliaries auxiliary verbs better called comma common noun compound conjugate conjunction connected Corresponding with Murray's defective verb definite article denote ellipsis EXERCISES IN PARSING EXERCISES IN SYNTAX following sentences future tense genitive Give an example governed happy imperative mood imperfect tense implies indicative mood infinitive mood interjection intransitive James John king loved manner means Murray's Grammar neuter verb nominative Note number and person objective PARSED AND CORRECTED passive verb Perf perfect participle personal pronoun phrase PLUPERFECT TENSE plural number possessive potential mood preposition Pres present tense relative pronoun repeat RULE VI RULE VII Rule XV second future second person sense signifies sing singular number sometimes speak subjunctive mood substantive superlative syllable SYNTAX CONTINUED tence thing Thou art tion tive transitive verbs virtue vowel William wise word wouldst write written
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Side 116 - The place of fame and elegy supply : And many a holy text around she strews That teach the rustic moralist to die. For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er...
Side 179 - Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth ; a stranger, and not thine own lips. 3 A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty ; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both.
Side 185 - We have the power of retaining those images which we have once received; and of altering and compounding them into all the varieties of picture and vision...
Side 31 - Perfect Tense. Singular. Plural. 1. I have been, 1. We have been, 2. Thou hast been, 2. You have been, 3. He has been ; 3. They have been. Pluperfect Tense. Singular. Plural. 1. I had been, 1. We had been, 2.
Side 157 - to write" was then present to me, and must still be considered as present, when I bring back that time, and the thoughts of it. It ought, therefore, to be, " The last week I intended to write.
Side 185 - We cannot indeed have a single image in the fancy that did not make its first entrance through the sight; but we have the power of retaining, altering, and compounding those images, which we have once received, into all the varieties of picture and vision...
Side 102 - RULE II. Two or more nouns, fyc. in the singular number, joined together by a copulative conjunction, expressed or understood, must have verbs, nouns, and pronouns, agreeing with them in the plural number: as " Socrates and Plato were wise; they were the most eminent philosophers of Greece;" " The sun that rolls over our heads, the food that we receive, the rest that we enjoy, daily admonish us of a superior and superintending Power.
Side 51 - There are three degrees of comparison ; the positive, the comparative, and the superlative.
Side 118 - A syllable is a sound either simple or compounded, pronounced by a single impulse of the voice, and constituting a word, or part of a word ; as, a, an, ant. Spelling is the art of rightly dividing words into their syllables; or of expressing a word by its proper letters.* WORDS.
Side 163 - Much was believed, but little understood, And to be dull was construed to be good; 690 A second deluge learning thus o'er-run, And the monks finished what the Goths begun.